Biochemistry

Dr. Alan McNeil MBBS FRCPA MAACB FRACP PhD

Dr McNeil graduated from the University of NSW and completed his postgraduate training in Pathology and Endocrinology in Adelaide and Newcastle. He completed a PhD in Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital studying intracellular signalling, and was Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology at Auckland University from 1995 - 2000.

In 2001, he was appointed Chemical Pathologist at Dorevitch Pathology and later became Head of Chemical Pathology. He moved to another private pathology firm in 2013 but has since returned to Dorevitch in June 2015, once again as head of Chemical Pathology.

Dr McNeil received the Welcome Prize in the membership examinations of the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists (AACB) and was granted an NH&MRC Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD studies. He is an examiner in Chemical Pathology for the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists and was Chief Examiner from 2006 to 2012.

Dr McNeil has special interests in endocrinology, and in quality improvement and error reduction in laboratories, as well as all aspects of biochemical test interpretation.